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Started Final Fantasy IX again, with the Moguri Mod, and thoroughly enjoying this trip down memory lane.

Now that I'm older I appreciate the themes found in this game in a way 12 year old me most certainly couldn't.

The hype train is absolutely dangerous.

The anticipation for HL3 would be terribly high, and so would be the expectations of millions of lovers of the franchise, making sure anything other than a perfect game would be met with lots of negative reactions.

And it's not just about a single game either. A bad HL3 could end up tarnishing the legacy of the other titles, forever ruining what is now a beloved franchise. Remember what happened to Game of Thrones? Who would ever risk something like that happening? Or, speaking of games, look at how much goodwill Bethesda burned with the release of Starfield.

You slut

Came here to say this. You think it's a joke but the joke's on you

I agree the price is pretty high for what it is, but I wonder how much adding a headphone jack would actually affect it.

I bought the Fairphone 5 and yeah, I miss not having the jack and I see no reason to take it out

I heard that person actively contributed for something like 2 years, providing actually useful contributions, to gain the level of trust needed to plant that backdoor. Feels a bit too much to chalk it up to boredom.

As for the second part, that's an interesting question. Are there lots of backdoors and we just happened to notice this one, or backdoors are very rare exactly because we'd have found them out soon like in this case?

Windows licenses AFAIK are already rarely bought on their own. The vast majority of users get one by having it bundled to a new device they purchase.

My thoughts exactly. Kinda like how some tiktoks/reels/shorts are specifically crafted to make you watch them over and over again to drive up viewing time.

Jamendo is definitely still around, and there has always been plenty of music made as a score there

Say you're a dictator without saying you're a dictator

It's been a while since I've played it but it is fun. I might just have to install it again

Ka is a wheel after all

I loved that one too, can't wait for the right time to read it again

=)

I never got that Gameboy I wanted, but that's OK, I'm made up for it using emulators years later.

Shuffle my entire library of course.

Satie after Lorna Shore? Of course kind sir

Speaking as a gendered language user (Italian) it is sometimes weird.

For example, car is feminine but our name for an off-road vehicle is masculine, as is the word for truck. Since you have to apply the gender of the noun to verbs, articles and adjectives, which one do you use when talking about your SUV? Feminine because it's a car or masculine because it's an offroader?

For borrowed words there's usually a consensus on gender that forms over time. Sometimes a borrowed word inherits its gender from the translation of that word that fell out of use. One example of this could be the word computer. An equivalent term exists in Italian (calcolatore) which fell out of use but gave it a definite gender, masculine.

Sea roaches

Well, I thought I had a little insight on the matter since I'm Italian, guess I was wrong. /s